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Sorry about this people, but the stories are going to start coming later, hopefully they will come with 6-7 days but I can't promise anything. Family Matters, school, and other things……


A skimmer landed on the darkened deck outside. A rider jumped from it and headed to the door, followed by another figure.


Bridge:

"Hello, Storm Hawks," the clear voice of Starling rang as she entered the bridge.

"St-Starling! What a pleasant surprise!" Piper cheered in admiration.

"Hey Starling, and…..Sun was it?" Aerrow asked politely.

"H-hi, uh, yeah," Sun replied timidly, "Hello, Tallen."

Tallen looked up from her sketchbook and smiled, "Good Evening, Sun!"

"Anyways, I've been given a message for a mission to infiltrate the Cyclonian Base on Terra Tundras. Sun and I aren't enough for this, so we came to request that Aerrow, and Tallen join us," Starling said. Whether she meant it or not she always sounded official, titled, and authoritative. It made people listen and admire her.

Tallen nodded when Aerrow looked over his shoulder at her. "Okay, we're in!" he stated confidently.

"We were just there so we'll just back track over the same route, Stork," Piper replied when Stork looked at her for directions. He nodded and went back to the wheel.

"Well, well, aren't you a pretty lady," Finn smooth talked to Sun who blushed and hid quickly behind Starling.

"She's a little shy. If you don't mind, please don't scare her," Starling said, annoyed with the blond who muttered something and followed Piper to her charts.

"So, what's the mission about?" Aerrow asked glancing at Tallen when she came up beside him.

"I need to retrieve a case of crystals that is to be transported tomorrow to Cyclonia. In that case of crystals there is a stock of blocking crystals that had been dropped by a scientist when he fled after the Cyclonian invasion. The crystals have already been refined, though the Cyclonians don't know that, and that in the hand of the Talons would be disastrous."

Aerrow nodded and looked outside as Starling started talking to Piper and Sun. Tallen still stood beside him quietly looking outside upon the stars, he smiled and momentarily looked at her.

Tallen walked away and over to Stork.

"So how long until we get there?"

"Oh, about five hours, like last time," Stork replied and suddenly noticed there wasn't a single word of doom in there. Ever since twilight had fallen, the entire group seemed to be happier, even the Merb.

Tallen nodded and left the bridge to walk on the deck.


Terra Tundras:

"Okay Piper, we're in," Aerrow said over the personal communicator. The skimmers were hidden behind giant rock formations. Starling as well as himself had dressed in miner's outfits, and Talen and Sun would trail after them in Cyclonian guard uniforms. Radarr and Feather looked through binoculars at the scene.

"Go straight into the crater, that is where they hold the crystals. You see the grayish building in the center? That is where the storage is, just get that passed the guards and you'll be free to go!" Piper replied over the communicator back on The Condor.

Aerrow and Starling walked forward and climbed down into the depression in the ground. Tallen and Sun came down from the other side, both groups heading towards the building.

"Hold it! Identification needed!" a guard said as both teams approached. Starling gave a wink to Sun and she waved her hands slowly over the guard's eyes, releasing a faint purple energy wave.

"Hey, wait! What…..what…..are….youuuuu……." he never finished for he had fallen victim to Sun's specialty, sleep. He snored loudly and fell to the ground. Both Sky Knights quickly stuffed him inside and Tallen and Sun took the guard's place.

"Okay, we've got the case!" Starling whispered as she cracked the door open to peek out.

"We might have a little problem," Tallen whispered back, seeing, through Cyclonian goggles, five angry and confused guards storming towards them.

"Not good! Okay, well, you can't fight, to many people!" Piper panicked over the communicator. She was thinking hard.

Feather snarled from where the skimmers where hidden and Radarr took a turn looking though the binoculars and joined her, both waiting to see if they were needed to rush in.

"Well, well, what do we have here boys? Two little pretty ladies, who aren't assigned here. How interesting," the Cyclonian team's leader stated sarcastically.

"Sir, seeing as Guardian Lucas had to take the day off due to sudden sickness, we have been called into service today," Tallen replied in a voice that matched the gruff voices of modern Cyclonians, caused by the pollution.

"Aye? And what do you, little lady, make of the fact that I have never seen you before?!" he retorted.

"We are new, Sir."

He mumbled something under his breath and glared, "Carry on then."

When they were out of sight Tallen sighed and Sun shivered.

"N-nice one," the blue haired Sky Wing said happily.

Tallen nodded and opened the door, letting the Sky Knights out with the small case of aqua crystals. Aerrow beamed at her and Starling gave her an approving nod.

"How did you know this guy's name?" the red haired Sky Knight asked.

"Sun can read sleeping minds, she told me," Tallen replied giving the rose skinned Sky Wing a pat on the back.

They sneaked back up, winding over the mines and dogging the Cyclonian camps that dotted the area.

As they were leaving, a group of Cyclonians trailed after them. The Interceptors and Storm Hawks sped up, and the Cyclonian guards, with Sir leading the pack

"Come back here!" he yelled and the two groups twisted and turned in the landscape. It was too dangerous for the Sky Wings to fly, considering outspread wings, while on the group even only for a second, would just increase the likelihood of being hit.

The groups sprinted over the rocky terrain until the skimmers where in sight. The Sky Knights jumped onto the skimmers and the Sky Wings, behind the now living skimmers, where able to quickly burst off into the air. Radarr and Feather screeched and through rocks at the Cyclonians, both creatures even hit the same guy on the head, renduring him unconscious.

"Get them!" Sir roared.

The entire group smashed the Cyclonians with a combination of their attacks. When they finished, the guards laid face-down in the dirt, asleep or unconscious.

"Let's go," Starling called to the Sky Wings. Tallen landed back on Aerrow's skimmer and they soon returned to the Condor, which blasted off at full speed, not waiting for any Talon squadrons to catch up.


Condor:

"Ah, got them!" Starling said as the skimmers were put into the hold.

"So, now where are they off to?" asked Aerrow when they all entered the bridge.

"I'm going to return them to the scientist back on Atmosia," Starling replied.

"Do you think he would mind if I examined them?" Piper asked opening the case to see the aqua crystals. She already had one, but these had been professionally refined, probably by a machine that had been invented specifically for blocking crystal refining.

Starling laughed a little, "We'll be back there soon, it'll be four hours and then we can go return them to the owner. Who knows? He might just let you keep one for yourselves.

Piper nodded and put the case in a safe. The Interceptors and Storm Hawks all yawned in unison. Stork knew he would have to stay awake until four hours passed and they landed on Terra Atmosia.


Okay, yeah, sorry if the stories come out later than usual. I'll try and get them out quickly!

Next Time: What is the secret to creating blocking crystals? Who is the scientist? What is up with Sun and her obsession with everything yellow?

Thanks and keep reading 'Lost, but not Forgotten'!